c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth." — Robert Southey
"I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money." — Bob Hope
"Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness." — John Calvin
"I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs." — Diane Abbott
"The secret to humor is surprise." — Aristotle
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." — Peter Drucker
"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves." — Oliver Goldsmith
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." — Thomas Aquinas
"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit." — Simone Weil
"Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person." — Sophia Bush
"'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business." — Richard Chamberlain
"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out." — Timothy Leary
"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act." — Andre Malraux
"We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them." — Samuel Butler
"I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor." — Joan Rivers
"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does." — Mary Gordon
"I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic." — Brooke Burke
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." — Alice Walker
"I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise." — Susan Orlean
"I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?" — Amanda Seyfried
"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor." — Sholom Aleichem
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." — Niels Bohr
"Satire doesn't effect change." — P. J. O'Rourke
"Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination." — Stephen King
"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions." — Bertolt Brecht
"People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?" — Imelda Marcos
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding." — Ambrose Bierce
"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear." — Russell Baker
"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture." — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on." — Christina Aguilera
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." — John C. Maxwell
"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad." — George Bernard Shaw
"I don't trust what this life has given me." — Dennis Rodman
"Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time." — Denis Waitley
"Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship." — Johann Kaspar Lavater
"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?" — Tom Clancy
"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up." — Steven Morrissey
"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age." — Albert Einstein
"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges." — Joyce Meyer
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground." — Miguel de Cervantes
"Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans." — Peter Guber
"When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them." — Michael Rooker
"I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination." — Anna Deavere Smith
"The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you." — Tony Wilson
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress." — Jane Siberry
"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." — Les Brown
"Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone." — Deepak Chopra
"People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death." — Jessica Simpson
"The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both." — John Cornyn
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." — Patrick Henry
"I have the strength to endure it all." — Moshe Dayan
"The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken." — Ron Fournier
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving." — Merle Shain
"Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools." — Cathy McMorris
"What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party." — Henry David Thoreau
"My family were from Jamaica." — Diane Abbott
"Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest." — Kinky Friedman
"When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me." — Ice Cube
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." — Anne Frank
"My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol." — Mercedes McCambridge
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." — Steve Jobs
"Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows." — Pharrell Williams
"There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie." — Franz Kafka
"Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory." — Joshua Foer
"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin." — William Robertson Smith
"If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting." — Max Irons
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." — William Makepeace Thackeray
"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy." — Olivia Wilde
"I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength." — Elisabeth Shue
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." — Arthur C. Clarke
"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you." — Neal Boortz
"My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything." — Shane MacGowan
"Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!" — Robert Forster
"My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son." — Laura Schlessinger
"It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction." — Mary Gordon
"I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to." — Drew Barrymore
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help." — Epicurus
"'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else." — J. K. Rowling
"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China." — John Howard
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." — Ben Stein
"I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe." — Wolfgang Puck
"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less." — Morgan Freeman
"Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die." — Emily Mortimer
"All gardening is landscape painting." — William Kent
"In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care." — Doc Hastings
"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded." — Franklin Pierce
"Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism." — Eminem
"Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas." — Jil Sander
"If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult." — P. J. O'Rourke
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all." — Michael LeBoeuf
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." — Plato
"Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves." — Charles Stanley
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding." — Anatole Broyard
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." — Lauren Bacall
"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq." — Bob Graham
"In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned." — Jerry Saltz
"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job." — Thomas P. O'Neill
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds." — Henry Adams
"I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men." — David Bailey
"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing." — Leigh Hunt
"Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go." — e. e. cummings
"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." — Albert Einstein
"Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car." — Eric San
"Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it." — Lou Rawls
"Words derive their power from the original word." — Meister Eckhart
"Natural history is not about producing fables." — David Attenborough
"In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent." — Michael Nutter
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." — Buddha
"I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had." — Matthew Morrison
"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." — James Dean
"It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it." — George McGovern
"I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone." — Susie Bright
"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it." — Mike Ditka
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." — Richard Bach
"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States." — Henry A. Wallace
"Ideas shape the course of history." — John Maynard Keynes
"Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed." — Charles M. Schulz
"Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult." — Anthony Daniels
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." — Bruce Lee
"Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people." — Annie Lennox
"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning." — Maya Lin
"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems." — Linus Torvalds
"It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind." — Chris Messina
"I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me." — Eva Herzigova
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action." — Emma Goldman
"I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land." — Yann Martel
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." — Voltaire
"Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada." — Stephen Harper
"Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism." — Jeb Bush
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour." — Benjamin Disraeli
"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could." — Charles Erwin Wilson
"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion." — Ninon de L'Enclos
"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement." — Jill Clayburgh
"Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life." — Devon Werkheiser
"The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." — Florence Scovel Shinn
"If you don't like my movies, don't watch them." — Dario Argento
"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God." — Bill Cosby
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006." — Solomon Ortiz
"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities." — Lewis Mumford
"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it." — Jim Harrison
"A new untruth is better than an old truth." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." — Ellen Glasgow
"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it." — Samuel Richardson
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion." — Herbert Spencer
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." — Samuel Smiles
"Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag." — Adrian Cronauer
"A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money." — Lewis Hallam
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." — H. L. Mencken
"A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals." — Robert M. Hutchins
"I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out." — Anne Frank
"His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad." — Red Skelton
"I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due." — Loretta Lynn
"For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce." — Tom Peters
"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage." — George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." — Calvin Coolidge
"I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid." — Grover Cleveland
"I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever." — Lily Collins
"I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves." — Major Taylor
"I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one." — Wendy Liebman
"I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress." — April Bowlby
"It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country." — Alfred Adler
"Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'" — Prince
"Truth is powerful and it prevails." — Sojourner Truth
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary." — Henry Miller
"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years." — Major Owens
"But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you." — Deepak Chopra
"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union." — George Mason
"It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest." — Richard Hammond
"Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?" — John Clayton
"I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful." — Nia Long
"If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste." — Reed Hastings
"I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles." — Pamela Anderson
"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques." — Robert Morgan
"Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move." — Edward Felten
"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience." — Marquis de Sade
"The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!" — Dante Hall
"I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records." — Michelle Branch
"Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind." — Mick Jagger
"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous." — Les Aspin
"When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!" — Devon Werkheiser
"Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen." — Keith Henson
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." — George Santayana
"It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order." — Story Musgrave
"I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on." — Michel Gondry
"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress." — Leonard Cohen
"The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most." — Curt Schilling
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas." — Frank Butler
"I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics." — Damon Albarn
"I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all." — Mitch Hedberg
"I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice." — Katherine Jenkins
"I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy." — Valerie Bertinelli
"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country." — Tim Bishop
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." — Paul Dirac
"Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness." — Vince Cable
"Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy." — Glenn Beck
"To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken." — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity." — Virginia Woolf
"I believe in delegating power." — Hillary Clinton
"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault." — Branch Rickey
"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success." — Ashley Montagu
"What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic." — Alan Jackson
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others." — Peter L. Berger
"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change." — John Ruskin
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle." — Heinrich Heine
"Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money." — Bo Bennett
"I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day." — Magic Johnson
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him." — Blaise Pascal
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible." — Hannah Arendt
"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions." — James Russell Lowell
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth." — Albert Schweitzer
"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends." — Fred Frith
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." — Aristotle
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." — Bruce Barton
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun." — Babe Ruth
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people." — John Adams
"I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies." — M. Night Shyamalan
"I always wanted what Mom and Dad had." — Kim Kardashian
"However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts." — John Calvin
"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew." — Robert Browning
"There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity." — Kristen Wiig
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." — Maya Angelou
"I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning." — David Hockney
"There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way." — Geri Halliwell
"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt." — Paul Tillich
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy." — Benjamin Disraeli
"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!" — Joel McHale
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." — Mother Teresa
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment." — Irving Babbitt
"I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was." — Jennifer Lopez
"A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity." — Harry Connick, Jr.
"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth." — Keith Miller
"To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife." — Angelina Jolie
"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level." — Vladimir Kramnik
"Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me." — Justin Bieber
"The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?" — Rahm Emanuel
"Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage." — John Milius
"Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it." — Thomas Carlyle
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." — C. S. Lewis
"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses." — Sarah Orne Jewett
"Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?" — John Amery
"I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece." — Diane Kruger
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue." — Thomas Jefferson
"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality." — Mary McCarthy
"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage." — Conan O'Brien
"When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money." — Kin Hubbard
"Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known." — Dee Dee Myers
"The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face." — Mark Cuban
"If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps." — Edwin Land
"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible." — Steve Case
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." — Blaise Pascal
"Success has always been a great liar." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without alienation, there can be no politics." — Arthur Miller
"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment." — Lyman Trumbull
"I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me." — Rosanna Arquette
"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." — Charlotte Whitton
"Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action." — Brendan Francis
"Translation is the art of failure." — Umberto Eco
"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life." — Henry Ford
"My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'" — Rashida Jones
"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality." — Talcott Parsons
"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"I can't travel without Sudoku." — Robert Ballard
"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent." — Mignon McLaughlin
"As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act." — Sue Kelly
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results." — Wade Boggs
"I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'" — Ralph Nader
"I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle." — Abbie Cornish
"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late." — Ogden Nash
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken." — Albert Camus
"Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion." — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick." — Debbie Stabenow
"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give." — David O. McKay
"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy." — Rutherford B. Hayes
"History should be written as philosophy." — Voltaire
"The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer." — Ben Nighthorse Campbell
"I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people." — Dick Wolf
"America is a land where men govern, but women rule." — John Mason Brown
"The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." — John F. Kennedy
"To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles." — Mike Pence
"My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run." — Carol Burnett
"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework." — Bill Cosby
"A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today." — Giuliana Rancic
"I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time." — Natasha Calis
"I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing." — T-Pain
"Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people." — Carl Lewis
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." — Josh Billings
"Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work." — Julie Burchill
"I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy." — Sandra Fluke
"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars." — Richard M. Nixon
"I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there." — Brendan Fraser
"I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child." — Jim Knight
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times." — Winston Churchill
"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success." — David Sarnoff
"The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil." — Ted Nugent
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom." — Thomas B. Macaulay
"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do." — Dean Kamen
"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year." — James Lovelock
"I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about." — Karl Pilkington
"I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph." — Sloane Crosley
"I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me." — Temple Grandin
"But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude." — Harold Bloom
"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help." — John Keegan
"Americans accept that gangsters are running the government." — Tim Robbins
"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money." — Satchel Paige
"I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't." — Jonathan Rhys Meyers
"No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion." — George Whitefield
"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women." — Angela Davis
"What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people." — Kenny G
"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters." — George Cooper
"The average American is nothing if not patriotic." — Herbert Croly
"It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." — Colin Powell
"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously." — Norman Vincent Peale
"The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives." — Gertrude Jekyll